Kresge Undergraduate Research Mentorships

Kresge’s Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program pairs Kresge Students with faculty members, and supports their work as paid research apprentices to the faculty member’s research. The purpose of the program is to inspire and prepare Kresge students to pursue graduate studies/research after their graduation from UCSC. Special consideration is given to applications in which faculty express clear intentions to mentor students in specific ways, and have envisioned specific roles in which students learn styles of thinking and investigation crucial to their field.

• Up to three $1,000 grants awarded annually: $500 to support your role in a faculty mentor’s research, and $500 of unrestricted funds contributed to further that mentor’s existing research. 
• Research can include scholarship, creative work, laboratory work, translation, design, software development, data analysis or management, ethnography, or field study, participant/observation work, and/or empirical study, in any discipline.
• Aimed at supporting faculty research in which an undergraduate plays a substantial collaborative role, cultivating research skills that prepare them for graduate study
• Applications may propose new projects, or new efforts within your mentor’s projects already underway.

This mentorship opportunity is not meant to support students’ independent research projects, but to support them as they work with faculty on faculty-directed research. Students seeking support for their own research should consider the Kresge College Independent and Collaborative Student Project Funds (see website).